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2002 CURACAO TOURNAMENT

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Dear Chess Friends, We are happy to announce the Curaçao 1962- 2002 chess tournament.

This is an open tournament that will be held from November 16 to November 28, 2002.

The tournament is dedicated to the fact that it is 40 years ago that the Worldchampion Candidate Tournament was taken place here. Viktor Kortsnoj, Pal Benkö and Yuri Averbach already confirmed that they will return after 40 years to celebrate this anniversary. The tournament will have 9 rounds and a maximum of 120 players including about 15 titled players.

We already have confirmations from Jan Timman (NL), Bartek Macieja (Pol), Sofia Polgar (Israel/Hungary), Yona Kosashvili (Israel), Anjelina Belakovskaia (USA), Alonso Zapata (Colombia), Johan Alvarez (Venezuela) and Carlos Gallegos (Venezuela). We will announce the other names of titled players on short term.

Our concept is that the tournament should also be very interesting for not professional club players who would like having the experience of a very international tournament with the opportunity to play against opponents from all our wind directions (Europe, USA, Caribbean and South America).

In 2001 We already had participants of 17 countries and we are expecting more flags this year. More information (including a 1962 and a 2001 picture gallery and general information about Curaçao) you can find on our website www.curacao.com/chess.

We hope you can provide your members with this information.